Why are there so many people allergic to all nuts yet we don’t see many people allergic to all fruits?
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So many Human being allergic to raw plans , we can’t eat raw meat , tons of nut allergies, did we really evolve on this planet
I work in a hospital catering section constantly checking this stuff. People suffer reactions for specific nuts, but get placed on ‘all nuts’ by us as a precaution, because the food manufacturers won’t specify which nut they shipped us.
They use this blanket ‘main contain traces of nuts’. In the processing factory, theres every opportunity for cross-contamination.
As for ‘all fruits’, I’ve marked off people with sensitives to fructose, the sugar in most fruits(not all though).
Widely farmed crop tree nuts is a very related set.
Fruit is more diverse. But people are allergic to some fruit. I’m allergic to watermelon.
I’m deathly allergic to Peaches. I’m so allergic to them I don’t go to the produce market when Peaches are in season. For some reason people like to handle the Peaches the touch all the other fruit. It could kill me
I’ve been pondering a similar ELI5 question regarding nut allergies. So many of the things we call nuts aren’t true nuts, eg peanuts, cashews, almonds but they all seem to grouped together with regards to allergies. Do people with nut allergies have to be careful to avoid things like fragments of peach pit? What exactly is going on and why do allergies seem to have a a concept of the colloquial term “nut”.
There IS an actual disease called hereditary fructose intolerance which causes an inability to digest fructose and can lead to toxic buildup in the liver, but it’s rare.
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